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Gadfly Bites 10/5/20 – Luckily…
In Cincinnati, some of the district’s whipsawed parents speak. (Spectrum News 1, 10/5/20)
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Gadfly Bites 10/2/20 – The whipsaw chronicles
Another day, another raft of evidence that parents looking for certainty are well and truly hosed.
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Teachers & School Leaders
Schools need talented teachers. Here’s how to find them in these challenging times.
There are no silver bullets when it comes to closing achievement gaps. But there are inputs and interventions with solid evidence bases, and the impact of a good teacher is one of them.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/30/20 – Going forward
For some reason meeting on a Saturday, the elected board of Dayton City Schools unanimously approved a phased-in plan to bring students back for a
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/28/20 – General misunderstanding
Here’s an in-depth look at the first month of the school year at Xenia’s St. Brigid School.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/25/20 – Wicked Googly
Aren’t search engines great? With them, one can search for an important name (say, Aaron Churchill) and sometimes find references to that name in new places.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/23/20 – Protection for whom?
It’s Wednesday, and that means the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee will be hearing testimony today. One of the bills up for debate: SB 358. That’s the one that would, among other things, extend a moratorium on state testing from last school year to this one.
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Career & Technical Education
Back to school? The effect of layoffs on postsecondary enrollment in Ohio
Research has established—and common sense reinforces—that postsecondary
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/21/20 – Maybe there are fewer enemies than we think there are
Be cool, man! The boss is in town.
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Gadfly Bites 9/18/20 – Putting the “test” in testimony
In case you missed it earlier this week, Fordham’s Chad Aldis testified before th
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Teachers & School Leaders
To deal with coronavirus fallout, we need talented teachers
In the last six months, as the nation has struggled in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s been a lot of controversy and disagreement over what schools need
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Accountability & Testing
Testimony given before the Ohio Senate Education Committee on SB 358—9/16/20
Note: Today, the Ohio Senate’s Education Committee continued hearing testimony on SB 358 which would, among other things, make critical changes to the state’s testing and accountability system in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/16/20 – “A bad time to be measuring districts.”
“I just think it’s not a terribly appropriate time to be [measuring districts].
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Accountability & Testing
Why state assessment (still) matters
Ohio legislators recently introduced Senate Bill 358, which proposes to cancel all state testing scheduled for spring 2021, suspend report cards for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 school years, and extend so-called “safe harbor” provisions that shield sch
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/14/20 – A curmudgeon gets his scowl back
I’m not sure this piece reads as entirely objective journalism, but perhaps that’s because it is unusual to see
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 9/11/20 – Hello friend
The Dispatch editorial board giveth… (Columbus Dispatch, 9/10/20) …and
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Charter Schools
Ohio Charter News Weekly – 9.11.20
Charters closing gaps for Black and low-income students
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Gadfly Bites 9/9/20 – Has your school ever been any good at that?
Here’s a look at how schools in Montgomery County say they will address “the Covid slide” among their students.
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Gadfly Bites 9/4/20 – “I feel like this is maybe just one step above the plan we had in March.”
We have heard a bit about school districts having trouble accessing enough laptops fo
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Gadfly Bites 9/2/20 – Are we even sure what a real “hazard” is anymore?
Pretty darn quiet around here these days. To wit: we have just one clip for today.
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Charter Schools
In national debates over charter schools, truth matters
In late July, the Democratic Party released a policy platform that included stances on a variety of issues, including education.
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Accountability & Testing
Look it up: Building knowledge or just finding answers?
Arnold Glass and Mengxue Kang, psychology researchers at Rutgers-New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, are conducting an ongoing study using technology to monitor college students’ academic performance and to assess the effects of new instructional technologies on that performance.
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Governance
Gadfly Bites 8/31/20 – Furlough
We’ll start this week with another one of those detailed looks at the school choices being made by parents to get the best education for their children in light of
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Gadfly Bites 8/28/20 – Pandemic pivots
From an unlikely source comes this fantastic and very thorough look at families exercising school choice in response to the realities of a pandemic-influenced 2020-2021 s
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Private School Choice
The Cincinnati Enquirer’s absurd analysis of EdChoice
The Cincinnati Enquirer recently published a deeply flawed and misleading “analysis” of the EdChoice scholarship (a.k.a. voucher) program.
